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Twenty-Four Hospitals in New Jersey Earn an “A” in 2023 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades
Hospital Infections are Down in New Jersey After a Spike During the Pandemic The Leapfrog Group, a national nonprofit representing hundreds of the nation’s most influential employers and purchasers of health care, and driven in New Jersey by the New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute, today released the fall 2023 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades. The…Read More…
Take Five Interview with Staci R. Grant
Staci R. Grant, RHU, Vice President Benefits Division, Henry O. Baker Insurance Group. Open enrollment season is here. What are your small employer clients seeing in terms of health insurance premium costs and any new options? In the small employer market, we’re seeing premium increases anywhere from two and a half percent to 11…Read More…
Waiting on Action to Save New Jersey’s Small Employer Health Insurance Market
It’s Open Enrollment season, and, as a small employer, I’m once again turning to my broker and hearing the bad news on premium increases and limited choices for health insurance coverage in New Jersey’s Small Employer market. While there has been great energy and focus on subsidies and ways to drive competition in the…Read More…
Take Five Interview with Amy Murtha, MD
Amy Murtha, MD, Dean of Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. You come with an impressive background: Professor and chair of the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Services at the University of California, San Francisco, and professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Department of Pediatrics at Duke University. What drew…Read More…
Join Our Call for an Integrated Facility License for Physical and Behavioral Health Care
Last week we sent a letter to New Jersey’s Acting Health Commissioner, Kaitlan Baston, M.D., urging her to move forward expeditiously with proposing regulations creating an integrated facility license that permits provision of physical and behavioral health care services in the same setting by the licensee. The integrated facility license and regulations are critical to…Read More…
Take Five Interview with Christopher Rinn
Christopher Rinn, President and CEO of Visiting Nurse Association Health Group (VNAHG), a non-profit provider of home health, hospice, palliative and community-based care. You recently took over as President and CEO. Can you name your top priority for the organization? Coming out of a pandemic, we are now facing a new “health care norm.”…Read More…
NJ Saving Money and Improving Transparency — Perfect Together
For years, the Quality Institute has urged New Jersey to follow the lead of California’s Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) and other large employers using Reference Based Pricing to shift care to lower cost providers and settings. One part of these designs is identifying common procedures and screenings that can be done safely in lower…Read More…
Quality Institute’s Mayors Wellness Campaign Awards $127,500 To 10 New Jersey Towns Funded By Walmart, Grants Support Mental Health Programs, Education
PRINCETON, New Jersey — The Quality Institute’s Mayors Wellness Campaign (MWC) has awarded a total of $127,500 in grants to 10 New Jersey communities to support local initiatives supporting community mental health. The grants are in partnership with the League of Municipalities and funded by Walmart. The Quality Institute recognizes the need for mental health…Read More…